earthy musty vanilla redolenceerupts into comforting scentsof paper inky words dreams stories poetry from past agespaper that was born in reamscut neatly into pages book weight in happy handshas a balance of coverand leaves caressed by fingers pristine dog-eared annotated abusedthe satisfying sussurus as they turnand the individual paper colour white yellowed crackling edgescrisp fresh […]
Tag: Books
A found tanka inspired by a letter from Franz Kafka to Oskar Pollak
Kafka on Books Read books that wound you Affect you like disaster Grieve for characters Banished to far-flung forests A book must be the axe for The frozen sea inside us Free image found on www.theguardian.com
Still thinking about children and reading
Storytime Enter a deep dark forest Follow the winding trail Explore the fairy foliage Before daylight fails Hand in hand Folk and fairy tales Erase the lines between Everyday and make-believe Image found on Pinterest
Remembering childhood reading
A Reader’s First Books First impressions Of different worlds Pictures and words From a stranger’s imagination Held between your fingers Feeling As you turned papery pages Slowing down to sound out words Or read them Over and over again Flipping fast To your favourite parts Learning them by heart Shared experiences Different perspectives
A quote poem for Friday
Books are Cold and Certain Friends ‘Les livres sont des amis froids et sûrs’ Victor Hugo My friends are books: Pages of paper Sewn together, Clothed in distinctive Divergent covers. Colourful volumes, Weighty tomes, Slim softbacks Of poetry and stories Crowd my shelves, Clamour for attention, Welcome me into their worlds. But when I have read […]
Books are not dead
An interesting BBC article. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33717596?SThisFB
Library Thoughts
A library is A room or building Full of books And people Borrowing and reading books The service is libre Free You are at liberty To borrow and read books From librarians Liberal people Tolerant of those Who borrow and read books They are there to liberate The imagination The thoughts The words Contained in […]
writing in north norfolk 